This one was a bit of a shocker to me.
According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, two siblings, a boy and girl, were put into care after being removed from their parents, they could have gone to live with an aunt in Yorkshire, but a social worker decided their southern accents would leave them 'isolated' if they moved 200 miles to the north of England!
Seemingly the children's social worker decided that the children 'had grown up within the southern region and couldn't adapt to the change in area and culture'.
By gum, it's grim up North.
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